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DEPARTMENTAL NO.1.

FROM NANKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE

Sir R. Stevenson

No. 1002

24th October, 1947

Repeated to: Hong Kong

CONFIDENTIAL

D: 10.42 a.m. 25th October, 1947

R:

1.45 p.m. 25th October,1947

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[gps.undec.] Hong Kong telegram No. 1663 to Secretary of State for the Colonics.

Lord Ammon has since informed the press at Shanghai that he has been misquoted and that what he actually said was that Hong Kong question was " a matter for higher levels".

2. Nanking correspondent of United Press asked me today whether such talks were in fact in progress. I informed him that there was no (repeat no) founda- tion whatever for the story.

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